RDFS

Publication date: 2004-02-10 (with a previous version published at: 1999-02-22) Created by: RDF Working Group List of documents at: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/rdf

RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema (RDFS)

Overview

RDFS is a general-purpose language for representing simple RDF vocabularies on the Web. Other vocabulary definition technologies, like OWL or SKOS, build on RDFS and provide language for defining structured, Web-based ontologies which enable richer integration and interoperability of data among descriptive communities.

Recommended Reading

The RDFS is part RDF Specification suite Recommendations, published in 2004. This suite also includes an RDF Primer that covers the basic RDFS features, too.

A number of textbooks have been published on RDF, RDFS, and on Semantic Web in general. Please, refer to a separate page listing some of those, as maintained by the community. That list also includes references to conference proceedings and article collections that might be of general interest.

Tools that are listed as relevant to RDFS

(Note that you can browse tools per tool categories or programming languages, too.)

Last modified and/or added

The description of the following tools have been added and/or modified most recently.

• Ontop (last modified: 23 June 2022)
• Ontopic Studio (last modified: 23 June 2022)
• Cowl (last modified: 3 May 2022)
• Oracle Spatial and Graph 19c (last modified: 18 February 2020)
• Apache Jena (last modified: 16 January 2018)

All relevant tools

This is a list of all tools listed on this wiki, and that are marked as relevant to RDFS.

• AllegroGraph RDF Store (triple store programming environment reasoner development environment rdfs reasoner). Directly usable from Java LISP Python Prolog C Ruby Perl
• Apache Jena (triple store programming environment reasoner rule reasoner owl reasoner rdfs reasoner parser). Directly usable from Java
• Cowl (programming environment parser). Directly usable from C C++
• Mobi (programming environment development environment). Directly usable from Java Javascript
• Ontop (sparql endpoint converter owl reasoner rdb2rdf rdf generator rdfs reasoner reasoner). Directly usable from Java
• Ontopic Studio (sparql endpoint converter owl reasoner rdb2rdf rdf generator rdfs reasoner reasoner).
• OpenLink Virtuoso (triple store reasoner rdf generator sparql endpoint owl reasoner rdfs reasoner rdb2rdf). Directly usable from C C++ Python PHP Java Javascript ActionScript Tcl Perl Ruby Obj-C
• Oracle Spatial and Graph 19c (triple store reasoner owl reasoner). Directly usable from Java
• GraphDB (triple store reasoner sparql endpoint rdfs reasoner owl reasoner). Directly usable from Java C
• Sesame (triple store programming environment reasoner rdfs reasoner parser). Directly usable from Java Python PHP